Example sentences of "leave nothing to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As landlords ' solicitors become ever wary that they should leave nothing to chance , the number of individual tenant 's covenants appear to be increasing with heavyweight commercial leases quite often having comfortably in excess of 30 covenants and not far short of 50 . |
| 2 | The old man silently cursed himself for blurting out his intentions just now … about how he would leave nothing to David , yet everything he had to his own undeserving son . |
| 3 | Leave planning your kitchen to Hygrove … and leave nothing to chance . |
| 4 | but they leave nothing to chance they 've even brought their own satellite to plot the weather … |
| 5 | With you , Mr. Mayor , at the helm , I feel we shall be in no danger of a shipwreck , but I notice you have left nothing to chance , and for safety 's sake have provided us with a lifeboat ’ . |
| 6 | Old Van Leer left nothing to chance : not only did he plan his own funeral , he even made Wim rehearse a funeral oration , which he did with his usual brio . |
| 7 | Content often left little to the imagination , with one candidate listing ‘ winning a prize for dressing up as Kylie Minogue at the Finchley carnival ’ among his or her achievements , while another left nothing to chance and scrawled ‘ YOU CA N'T LIVE WITHOUT ME ! ’ at the end of his CV . |
| 8 | ‘ Ted 's camp left nothing to chance , ’ he recalls . |
| 9 | ‘ You left nothing to chance , did you ? ’ |
| 10 | Robert Green 's card of 1752 is more explicit , leaving nothing to chance ; but he had a reason , for not only was he in business as a furnishing undertaker but also provided a wholesale service to the trade in general . |
| 11 | Leaving nothing to chance , the organisers of the ‘ Greatest Flower Show on Earth ’ spent eight years transforming seventy hectares of polder into a totally controlled floral environment . |
| 12 | But President Suharto appears to be leaving nothing to chance . |
| 13 | Dependent on opportunity , Young leaves nothing to chance : his working life is planned months in advance and at present he has three clear days before August . |